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The new Netflix documentary, Buy Now: The Shopping Conspiracy, might make you think twice about your Christmas shopping. Written and directed by Nic Stacey, Buy Now is a searing indictment on modern consumerism and waste. Not only is human garbage production at an all-time high, the garbage we’re producing is increasingly toxic waste—thanks...
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Based on the French series Le Bureau des Legendes, The Agency conjures up star-studded espionage, thanks to the talents of Michael Fassbender, Jeffrey Wright, Jodie Turner Smith, Richard Gere, and Katherine Waterston, just to name a few. The new show centers on Martian (Fassbender), a CIA agent who must return to London Station and give up his...
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Dune: Prophecy only recently premiered on HBO and Max, but I am already locked into the dark new series. Set 10,000 years before the events of Denis Villeneuve's Dune and the ascension of Paul Atreides, Dune: Prophecy uncovers how the Bene Gesserit established itself as a force not to be reckoned with. Emily Watson and Olivia Walker star as the...
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Is it more important to remember the past or build a better future? That's the central question that the characters in The Piano Lesson—a new film adaptation of August Wilson's 1987 play, now streaming on Netflix—wrestle with. Directed by Denzel Washington's son, Malcolm Washington, and starring Denzel Washington's other son, John David...
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Outlander Season 7 Part 2 is finally here, reuniting us with Jamie (Sam Heughan), Claire (Caitriona Balfe), and the rest of the time-traveling MacKenzie-Fraser clan. The second half of Outlander Season 7 kicks off with Jamie, Claire, and nephew Young Ian (John Bell) returning to Scotland for a spell. Meanwhile, poor Roger (Richard Rankin) has...
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Just in time for the angst of going home for the holidays, Elliot Page's new movie Close To You is now streaming on Netflix. Co-written by Page with director Dominic Savage, this moving family drama stars Page as Sam, a transgender man who returns to his childhood home in Lake Ontario, Canada for the first time in years—and for the first time...
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Based on the best-selling nonfiction book by Patrick Radden Keefe, FX's Say Nothing is a tour de force about trauma, terrorism, and true horrific cost of war. The series focuses on the story of Dolours Price (Lola Pettigrew as a young woman, Maxine Peake in middle-age), a real life member of the Irish Republican Army who grew to regret many of her ...
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